This article looks at the conflict that can arise between in-house lawyers who are working hard on company business and a CEO who thinks of the lawyers as little more than a necessary evil and suggests methods to communicate with a CEO in terms that he or she will understand.
Learn how companies responding to EPA claims under the Superfund statute can seek federal government contribution due to federal ownership of industrial facilities during World War II.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
This is a sample group sales event agreement where Group agrees that it will provide to Hotel information summarizing all events of a similar type to the one described in the Agreement that it holds between the date the Agreement is signed and the date of the Event described in the Agreement.
This guide reviews anti-corruption legislation, conventions, and practices in Italy.
This sample annual meeting script contains an order of business outline, general rules of conduct, a sign-in sheet, and sample introductory remarks.
The market for pharmaceutical products and medical devices in Brazil is definitely taking off. The Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) is continually increasing pharmaceutical assistance, as new drugs become available, as a result of the development of new public health policies. Read this chapter on Brazil to learn more.
This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).
In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding business dominance.
This material contains information on how to conduct a gap analysis and design a compliance program that fits your organization’s needs. Learn about successful program-building strategies and how to avoid compliance program pitfalls. Also, learn how to measure the effectiveness of your program and conduct a compliance audit.
This is a sample group sales event agreement between a hotel and an organization.
Understand the global legal and regulatory landscape of data privacy, specifically how it relates to the transfer of data across borders; discuss the role of the in-house attorney as a privacy professional; learn the valuable role the information security officer plays in developing and maintaining data privacy, and the importance of creating a cooperative relationship; understand which components of the data protection umbrella are the domain of the info security team (tech) and which are the domain of the data privacy team (legal); and Learn to assess the risks of your current data privacy protocols.
This is the outline for the session, Allocating Risk for Your Company: Playing the Feud.
In-house lawyers now often find themselves in the role of corporate risk managers. Read this article to learn the requirement for performing risk analysis in today's corporations, how to perform risk analysis and how to perform legal review of another's risk analysis.
Explains the legal and regulatory developments that compel your company's (and the legal department's) active involvement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues, and offers suggestions on how to develop a business case for CSR leadership.
As more and more companies expand their multinational presence, issues concerning how to effectively manage the workforce also expand. This article offers step-by-step instructions on how to proactively address this problem, as well as how multi-jurisdictional employers should audit employment practices, and who should be doing the auditing.
Establishing a foreign presence is a relatively straightforward project. Learn how to begin the project and what steps to take to complete it in a timely and efficient manner.
This article offers practical guidance on recognizing an ethical dilemma or conflict when you're facing it, and gracefully navigating your way through it.
A study of Legal Entity Management structures, governance best practices, and challenges based on survey responses from 467 organizations covering 20 industries and all global regions.
The Private Security Officer (PSO) Selection and Training Guideline has been written for both proprietary and contract security but is not intended to cover all aspects of selection
and training criteria for private security officers. It is intended to set forth minimum criteria that regulating bodies and companies in the United States can use to assist in recommending legislation and policies for the selection and training of private security officers.
In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investing in businesses based in India and developing commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.
EU data privacy laws make the collection of Electronically stored information (ESI) and its transfer out of Europe challenging. The session will begin with a brief update of U.S. case law focusing on cross-border discovery generally, and then turn to a discussion of Privacy by Design ("PbD"), which has become the gold standard for privacy protection in the 21st Century. This discussion will cover examples of how PbD has been operationalized and used to address the challenges presented by EU data privacy laws. The session will then cover Europe's acknowledgement of Canada's stringent privacy laws which make it a unique base for e-discovery collection, analysis and review. By collecting ESI from European employees into Canada, and then culling down/reviewing ESI in Canada to identify responsive email and documents, organization can minimize the amount of ESI for which they must obtain consent from employees for transfer to the U.S.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
There is reason to question whether increased shareholder influence on matters that the law has traditionally apportioned to the board is at the expense of other values that are key to the sustainability of healthy corporations. These concerns underlie the issues that will define the state of governance in 2015 and likely beyond.
This article details how international arbitration proceedings are governed in Switzerland.
This article presents the views and observations of leading anti-corruption practitioners in jurisdictions spanning every region of the globe.
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